Emily Toth's Definition's
- Apostrophe- the direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition
- Personification- the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure
- Synesthesia- a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color
- Hyperbole- obvious and intentional exaggeration
- Understatement- restraint or lack of emphasis in expression
- Litotes- a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite
- Metonymy- a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated
- Synecdoche- a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special
- Paradox- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
- Oxymoron- a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined
- Allusion- a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication
- Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
- Simile- a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as
- Implied Metaphor- a metaphor not explicitly stated or obvious that compares two things by using adjectives that commonly describe one thing, but are used to describe another comparing the two
- Analogy- similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar